Conservative city councilwoman caught slapping 6-year-old special needs student’s face

[RandySF]

A 62-year-old Des Moines, Washington city councilwoman, former state legislator and King County Superior Court judge is in hot water after cameras caught her slapping the face of a 6-year-old special needs student.

According to Seattle’s Fox Q13, Jeanette Burrage — who is now a bus-driver for the Highline School District — is facing charges of 4th degree assault in connection with the incident, which took place on March 10.

King County Sheriff’s Sgt. B.J. Myers said that police responded to a call on that day regarding a disturbance on a school bus. There was no indication at the time that an assault had occurred, but when school district officials reviewed the video footage, they saw and heard Burrage slap the student during an altercation.

School district employees reported the incident to Seattle-Tacoma Police on March 18 after reviewing the video.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/conservative-city-councilwoman-caught-slapping-6-year-old-special-needs-students-face/

[Cerridwen]

1. "...(former) Superior Court judge..."

Hmmm. Might want to check some of her rulings.

[libdem4life]

2. Never. Ever. Ever. OK. n/t

[Initech]

3. She can share a padded cell with this lunatic *GRAPHIC CONTENT*

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[CurtEastPoint]

6. Please put a GRAPHIC warning so people know what to expect when they click it.

[GoCubsGo]

7. Yes. I really did not want to see that.

[Initech]

11. Edited with a warning.

Sorry I missed that.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. it's the pic of the dead cat w arrow for those who need warning

[procon]

4. That's quite a fall...

from councilwoman, to a state legislator, Superior Court judge, then to a kid-slapping bus-driver.

[Sanity Claws]

5. She was the worst judge on the King Co bench

She was so bad that all litigants would file affidavits of prejudice against her. You get only one affidavit of prejudice so everyone both plaintiffs and defendants would prefer to have their case tried by anyone else. She was left with nothing to do and just sit around.

She was elected by some real estate interests. At this point I forget the full story but I do remember hearing that she had never tried a case while practicing law. Can you imagine that? She had never tried a case and was now going to have to make quick rulings on evidence and procedure.

Y'know, one can sink or swim. She sank. And she stank.

[gratuitous]

13. That's instructive

Usually these kinds of tools fail upward into some kind of wingnut welfare sinecure. The fact that she went from Superior Court Judge to school bus driver tells me she couldn't even be a tool right.

[Divernan]

8. Her FB page proclaims her a proud conservative (more from the OP link)

Burrage’s Facebook page proclaims her to be a proud conservative, displaying slogans like “Obama wants Catholic institutions to provide abortions & condoms. No news yet whether Muslims will be forced to sell bacon & alcohol.”

And, “THE GOOD NEWS IS that the US Government has admitted that it is driving the country off a ‘Fiscal Cliff.’ THE BAD NEWS is that we just elected a guy who’s campaign slogan was “FORWARD”! Go figure….”

[Omaha Steve]

9. K&R!

[nolabear]

12. This is here in Seattle. I wonder how she fell from judge to bus driver.

Quite a disparity.